Success or Selection? [The Effect of Migration on Occupational Mobility in a Dutch Province, 1840-1950.]

ABSTRACT This paper sheds light on a crucial period of Spanish economic history, analysing changes in intergenerational occupational mobility. We use newly collected empirical evidence from Valencia, a region that followed a path of growth based on agrarian capitalism focused on international markets. We show that occupational mobility improved between 1841 and 1850, but that this situation reversed during the following decades. The opportunities offered to individuals from poorer families quickly disappeared. Put in international perspective, occupational mobility in Valencia was far lower than in other European countries, where both downward and especially upward mobility were considerably higher. By 1870, Valencia had become a polarised society, where the lowest part of the income distribution suffered increasing pauperisation and downward mobility.

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Human capital matters:intergenerational occupational mobility in rural China

Applied Economics ◽

10.1080/00036846.2021.1927964 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-19

Author(s):

Ni Zhuo ◽

Chunhui Ye ◽

Chen Ji

Keyword(s):

Human Capital ◽

Rural China ◽

Occupational Mobility

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Those who can't sort, steal: caste, occupational mobility, and rent-seeking in rural India

Journal of Demographic Economics ◽

10.1017/dem.2020.21 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 87 (1) ◽

pp. 107-140

Author(s):

Nicholas Lawson ◽

Dean Spears

Keyword(s):

Labor Markets ◽

Social Inequality ◽

Occupational Mobility ◽

Rent Seeking ◽

Static Equilibrium ◽

Rural India ◽

Equilibrium Outcome ◽

Stylized Facts ◽

Survey Question

AbstractThree important features of Indian labor markets enduringly coexist: rent-seeking, occupational immobility, and caste. These facts are puzzling, given theories that predict static, equilibrium social inequality without conflict. Our model explains these facts as an equilibrium outcome. Some people switch caste-associated occupations for an easier source of rents, rather than for productivity. This undermines trust between castes and shuts down occupational mobility, which further encourages rent-seeking due to an inability of workers to sort into occupations. We motivate our contribution with novel stylized facts exploiting a unique survey question on casteism in India, which we show is associated with rent-seeking.

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The influence of further education on occupational mobility in Switzerland

European Sociological Review ◽

10.1093/esr/16.1.43 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 43-65 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

J. Li

Keyword(s):

Occupational Mobility ◽

Further Education

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The Effects of Part-Time Work on Women's Occupational Mobility in Britain: Evidence from the 1958 Birth Cohort Study

National Institute Economic Review ◽

10.1177/002795011222200103 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 222 ◽

pp. R20-R37 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Shirley Dex ◽

Erzsébet Bukodi

Keyword(s):

Cohort Study ◽

Large Scale ◽

Occupational Mobility ◽

Birth Cohort Study ◽

Full Time ◽

Downward Mobility ◽

Time Work ◽

Part Time ◽

Nationally Representative ◽

Part Time Work

The effects of working part time on job downgrading and upgrading are examined over the life course of British women born in 1958. We use longitudinal data with complete work histories from a large-scale nationally representative cohort study. Occupations were ranked by their hourly average earnings. Analyses show a strong link between full-time/part-time transitions and downward and upward occupational mobility over the course of up to thirty years of employment. Probabilities of occupational mobility were affected by women's personal traits, occupational characteristics and demand-side factors. Downward mobility on moving from full-time to part-time work was more likely for women at the top levels of the occupational hierarchy working in male-dominated or mixed occupations and less likely in higher occupations with more part-time jobs available.

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